Specked Definition & Meaning

Examples of speck in a Sentence

Noun There was not a speck of dust anywhere. Soon the balloon was only a speck in the sky. She writes without a speck of humor. Verb dirt that had specked the windows of the factory for ages

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Without trees, my sense of distance crumples, and soon, the rental car has shrunk to a blue speck. — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022 Patterson offers a few recommendations to aspiring writers: pare off every speck of fat and keep things moving along—fairly basic action-writing advice. — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 Both candidates are ramping up efforts to attract voters in Broward, a reliably blue speck of Florida. — Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2022 Thomas was born on Christmas Day, 1987, in Montrose, Ga., a speck of a town between Macon and Savannah. — New York Times, 5 July 2022 Our experts were blown away by the laser beam on the bare-floor brush that made every last speck of dust and hair visible in this Dyson's path. — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2022 The Mona Lisa was only slightly damaged; the rock chipped off a tiny speck of paint, but restorers were able to quickly make the repair. — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 June 2022 In fact, the pores in the cell membrane get so large that the speck conformation of the adapter protein can leave as well, along with other key particles necessary for cell survival. — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 July 2022 The Left Fork Fire is but a speck among them, yet its resilience may bode ill for a country under multiple red flag warnings and facing historic heat before the meteorological summer. — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 20 June 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The 656-foot vessel, called the Golden Ray, has been lying since early September off a slice of the Georgia coast specked with resorts and sprawling high-dollar homes. — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2019 Now, their territory has fewer than 1,000 residents and consists of about 7,300 acres, with roads wandering through woods specked with modest family homes. — New York Times, 22 June 2018 For all its strengths, though, the series proves a bit of a slog, at times, as the wheels turn along the dusty, blood-specked road to wherever this maze leads. — Brian Lowry, CNN, 19 Apr. 2018 To get into the spirit, order a ginger beer and rock shrimp fritters, fried balls of doughy goodness specked with bell pepper and spices that come steaming hot with a side of spicy mayo. — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2018 Moonchild is specked with obvious glitter, which could be a deterrent for some. — Devon Abelman, Allure, 15 Sep. 2017 The majority of it, however, was specked with red SALE signs, noting that the red, white, and blue a-line miniskirt was 40 percent off (from $80 to $53.40) and white sculpting mid-rise skinny jeans (from $89 to $36.60). — Emily Jane Fox, vanityfair.com, 10 Aug. 2017 The majority of it, however, was specked with red SALE signs, noting that the red, white, and blue a-line miniskirt was 40 percent off (from $80 to $53.40) and white sculpting mid-rise skinny jeans (from $89 to $36.60). — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 10 Aug. 2017 See More

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